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THURSDAY, OCTOBER · 17, 1957.

SHEAFFER'S

Skrip

COLONY YEN MYSTERY CLEARED UP

FRENCH YOUTH'S BID TO But Explanations

WIN A SCHOLARSHIP -THE HARD WAY

by a China Mail Reporter

Without a care in the world but a high hope of winning a scholarship, 19-year-old Claude Nedjar, a French youth, is travelling thousands of miles the hard way to go to Japan to study the social life of Japanese fishing folk.

He has spent the equivalen!

o! 420 which he was allowed to take with him when he left Paris, and this amount, plus the mey that he has earned sine. the beginning of his tourney, have already Laught him a rich and varied xperience.

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And if he can make his own way back to Parla by darabary 15 next year and present Hand thesis on hdy, 1.e nny he award 'd a scholarship worth a hellion franes,

Free Study

And that means several years

of free study In a university and eventually, hopes, n degree.

Clande Neijar is curning his rcholarship in a difeult way, He has to, for it was decreed that it should be so by the Zellkija Foun: a.ion, which grants the award,

Apart from the £20 which was given him by the Founda- tion, he is also given credentials which intrachice bim when

casion arises,

The document says inat Chude Nedjar has been chosen by Is school fellows, can- crated by his professors and Lommended by the Admitrita- tive Board of the National Foundation of Zelitija Scholar- salps for his "qualities and #pirit."

Conditions

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of

The document also lists the conditions that Nedlar is to buyer mone, to undertake stay in a far-off country, to epend only a smoli Fum money he has to sample all the difficulties of "physical, motul and intellectual enterprise to prepare himself to live a man's He

In Saigon: Claude and the dragon

He

next hitch-hike la Bombay, paying a fare of £3. Whilst there, he cume Here, lie spent three days in Tehernu.

a French Blm company hospital for PT-0XS

treatment of

So far, he has fed camels, making an information film and sickness brought about by lack

was appointed adviser in of vitamins.

for food und free

acted as tourist guide, iceturça a foarte audience and tri-exchunge

travels,

He wrote scripts, and travelled That was how he travelled to the Persian Gulf with them,"

velled in a tank across a closed, militory zone.

before he arrived in Hongkong. How will he get back to Paris? : Well, he hasn't thought out programme yet. It all depends on his carning capacity.

Ono Of 250

Dates & Rice

1

Here, Claude boarded

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He lectured to an "apprecia- live audience". of the Alliance Francaise whilst in Bombay and he was pald handsomely. He then had enough. maney, to pay

£27 to travel Saigon

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on board the mv Laos. During his voyage, he had to scrub the

Differ, Says Tokyo Report

Tokyo, Oct. 17. The mystery of the fast moving Japanese yen was declared "no mystery" today by agreement of all quarters concerned, Though they differed on their explanations every- one agreed the question of how the new five thousand yen banknotes got to Hongkong on October 1 the day they were issued in Japan was cleared up.

There were two main schools of thought:

The Japan Times quoting Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Elfchip Tanaka sait, i "The mystery has been solved... the notes were channeled in advance through the

icgal Toutes of city Unnks.".

This statement explained how the notes were circulating in Hongkong at 4 pm on October ! when they had been posse over the enumiera of the Bank of Japan beginning 9 ari

The only trouble was the Bank of Japan said flatly "T Just isn't to."

The

* explanation preferred

by the Bank of Japan was that they did not appear in Hongkong until October 2. "The report that they were being sold In Hongkong on October 1 is an error," a bank official said,

A Telegram

New AOC For

Singapore Golf Team Arrives

Hongkong POLICE OFFICER'S

Air Commodore P. D. Holder D.S.O., D.F.C., is to bo Hongkong's new Air Officer Commanding and

ALLEGED

will take up his appoint- PROMISE TO YOUTH

mont in November of this усаг,

He is expected to arrive in the Colony on or about Novem- ber 13,

Air Commodore Messenger, who has been Air Oncer Com- manding Hongkong since June, 1955, will leave by air accom- panied by his family on Novem- ber 18, He will return to the United Kingdom to Lake up u new post which has not yet bren announced.

For the last ten months Air Commodore Holder has been Oficer Commanding, Singapore.

Air Commodore Holder was Port Elizabeth, South born In September, 1011, at

hii

TO PLAY MATCHES

IN HK

The Singapore Intérport golf team arrived at Kal

series of matches in Hong-

A. 19-year-old student, who had been sentenced to Tak this morning to play a

two months' gaol for being a member of an kong. unlawful society, told Mr Justice T. J. Gould, The picture above shows left Senior Puisne Judge in the Appeals Court toto right. N. A. Harvey (Capl.), Malayan golf champion, J. C. day that he had been promised by a Police Hutcheson, T. H. A. Potts, I officer that if he pleaded guilty to the charge, Singapore golf champion and K. W. R. Muralile, H. Knaggs, he would only be bound over and would be McNair. able to continue study at school.

This student was Chau Kam- wah.

Four Triad

Men Gaoled

1wo for

years

Earlier this year, during the Chinese New Year, a Hongkong team went to Singapore and won besten 13 points to 11 in matches against the Royal Singapore Golf Club and the Royal Island Club.

Nick Harvey, the current Malayan Champion who will lead the Singapore team, sold before Jeaving Singapore, "We Four men were given prison

thin tixture da terma and placed under pollee hope to make annual event." supervision

He said he hoped to dacuss by Mr Hing-shing Lo at Cen- iral this morning for being the proposed new series in

"Our Hongkong.

team couid members, of unlawful sociętles.

there In October when Chan Nam, 41, a cockyard travel worker, was sentenced to two the Hongkong Championships are held and we could enter- VI imprisonment. Yu

*our Hengkong during Yuk-chong. 25, mahjong school nin employee, Chui Tal-hing, 43,

Open Championships in August the following year.” carpenter, and Keung Yu-chai, dockyard worker, wers

He produced a telegram from the Bank representative in Hongkong, Osto Watanabe, Bay"- Ing his investigation showed the benimotes made their debut on the day following their issuance in Tokyo and Osako.

Watanabe estimated that two million yen (about HK$33,000)

Chan Kam-ylu, 27, a coolic, in the new banknotes.

showed

another appellant told Mr Justice Air up In

Hongkong on October 2

Gould he had been sentenced to and increased to ten millon

two months after having pierded He guilty to a similar charge. yen by October 15,

There was another reason for

said he had been given two preferring. tlic secont

Aftien, choices, either to be detained at planation.

and educated at Bristol Gram- the Chatham Road comp or to That would have

mar School, Bristol University, enter a plea of guilty and be made it possible for a smuggler and the University of Illinois, bound over. He therefore pleaded to board a Japan Airlines plate .6.A.. gaining or Air India plane in Tokyo on

B.Sc. guilty, October 1 and arriving in long Class honours in 1931, his M.Sc. (Civil Engineerin() with is! kong with it the following in 1933, and his Ph.D. in 1935. morning with his currency.

He was granted a permanent That did not change the ques commission in the Royal Air Appellant had tion that a crime must have been force in 1938, At the outbreak Magistrate that offer had been committed, however, in trans-of war he was at Habbaniya, made to him. porting the yen to the Hongkong on administrative free money market.

duties, re-

Under the section in which Travellers leaving Japan by oining there until 1941, when the appellants had brought the he returned home for duty at appents, there was no provision ship or plane are permitted to

II.Q. Bomber Command,

for an appeat where the per carry out of Japan only 20,000 yen (HK$330) each for expenses

After operational training hẹ son had pleaded guilty. en route to their destination.

Joined No. 210 Squadron and

The Court would only con- took command. until September, sider the plea where the person Tong triad society.

did not understand the charge when the charge was read to him.

The Trail

The trail left by the crisp new Ave thousand yen- banknotes gave police a heaven sent oppor

railing boat ps.deckt passenger deck and clean the ship for his and sailed to Kuwait und food as he had suficient money Bahrein. Throughout this part only to pay for a deck passage.tunity to track down those in.

of the Journey he lived on B diet of dates and rice, and the

Claude was one cf the 250 luck students who applied for the scholarship, and who had been put through a lest in a proli- minary round in September, 1353. ile chose the study of

of fresh food and fruits gave him skin trouble that was still evident on arrival in long- kong a few days ago.

Here, he was obliged to pay for his voyage and food.

the Andes in South America, He next arrived as Muscat, and was one of the 50 students two weeks after the Bghting who qualified for the Anataided. Tension was still high Jound,

and there was a hostile attitude towards Europeans.

For his present examination, The Russians, he said, ceemed he chose the study of Japanese, to enjoy great prestige. fishing folk, their lives and problems,

He left Paris on July 13 thi year with £20, and was fold

to return by January 15

present his thosis.

Free Trip

to

23 門

To corred a free trip tourist guide while journicying from Paris to Rome and then to Belgrade. He thumbed rides when possible UK he reached Istanbul and later Ankara.

He was a cabla boy on a ral- way steeper travelling to a town on the Russian border. On arrival he found that he bad to cross closed military area on the Turkish side and being a civilian, he was not permitted to pot foot in the area.

This difficulty was overcome, Itowever, when Turkish tankmori packed him 'fhalde a tank during a telal run and "discarded"; him at the other end of the military zone near the Turkish-Rumjan- Imanian border.

It was early August and hos travelled to Tabriz in Irán

tending comels... in' a' caravah, ' watering and ferding the animals for a free ride-

Next Stop

Rubber Trees

volved in the Hongkong Japan currency racket.

1942, when he was posted to H.Q. No. 3 Group, for opera- tions. room duties. He Was awarded the DF.C. In 1941 and the D.S.O. in 1942.

where he became. Senior Ali

Not Told Magistrate

Mr Justice Gould Fald the mouths

nat told the

The Court were quite satisfed that the appellants had deliber- After a Stoff College course

the he returned to B.Q. Middle Fast, ately pleaded guilly to

charges and the Court had no

entertain jurisdiction to

the Staff Officer with Force 680 and appeals. "I am therefore not But police were reluctant to

was later engaged on air staff During his

short stay in disclose what steps they were

planning duties. In June, 1944, ready to make any order." Salgon, he worked en rubber taking to capitalise on

he joined the directing staff of this plantations and was paid wages opportunity.

the Staff College, and in Murch, at the rate of £25 a week.

1846, was oppointed Commend-

After"] accumulating enough A police srokerman said "we Ing Officer at R.A.F. Broadwell Air Travel

The

Toivo customs oflce

money, he bearded a plane for haven't called on the interpot - Hongkong with US$50 in his yet. pockets, In the Colony-he nerived last Fridny--he contactcy the French dredging company said: "We must re-study pur working at Kal Tak and was policy of examining the luggage paid for articles, he promised of outgoing passengers,"

United Press.

to write on their work.

Sometime today he is leaving for Japan.

Hly nex!

stop was Karachi and he had pală £2 de a deck How will he get home ta passenger on a steamer, There Paris"? No one knows. Claudo were fo many passengers on Nedjar doesn't know either. All deck that he could hardly find he's worrylag about Is getting room to stretch his legs. From back to Paris by January 15 to Karachi he boarded à plane for write his thesis.

STILL NO SIGN OF

RICHARD LOO

་་

Mr Richard Loo, the American Chinese who was reported miming by his wife last Tuesday, bas nol yet been located. The Police are stil making inquiries but do not believe that "anything has happened to him."

Mr Loo is a cinoma actor. He came to Hongkong soria six months ago to take part in the film “Hongkong "Affair." Mr Loo moved out from his hotel residence at Metropole House on October 11 and on the following day he went to the Police and requested an extention of his stay in the Colony. That application was grautod.

However, on Tuesday Mes Los reported to the Police that her 55-year-old husband was inisuing and she requested * asistance to find him.”- Mrs Loo arrived recently from the

United States.

Popular Consul Leaves

Star

Fashions

Bus Bumped Expert. Due Policeman's Car... Fined $100

The driver of a collided with

Mrs Molly Morse, BOAC Flight Fashion Adviser, will be erriving at the beginning of next woek to act as consultant on planning and organisation of the forthcoming Hongkong fashion show.

20,

prisonment cach. sentenced to one month's im

The team will play in the Hongkong Champlonships, be- ginning on October 20 and will also

In an interport Chan, Yu and Keung wero

compete members of the Luen To Ying match #nd eight singles triad society.

Chul was

match against the Hongkong services, member of the Chung Young

Two other men

Д

hawker, and Tam Cheung, 52,

Hi, 29, Car Radio Stolen

herbalisi, were bound over In

A car radio was stolen from $500 for two years and placed a private car parked outside the under police supervision for the Hongkong Football Club be- same period each, upon applica- twern 3 p.m. and 11.15 pm, tion by the Police.

yesterday.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

Mr Don Mario Gullen, the

Mra Morse, who is already well-known to fashion-conscious outgoing Panamanian, Consul- General, bade farewell to Hong-

bus which people in Hongkong, has been kong this morning when he left Inspector's car appeared before

0 Police Sub-} with BOAC for five years. with his family on the

Her position keeps her in Betelgeuse after ten years' ser Hongkong Traffle Magistrato Mr constant close touch with lead- vice in the Colony.

Thomas Tam at Central thising dress and fabric designers In maming.

the United Kingdom so that sho Mr Guillen is heading for The driver Yuen Bor of 416 can keep airline passengers au Japan where he will go to the Queen'à' Road Central was ined falt with latest and beet styles United States by plane. He will $100 with the alternative of for travelling stay in US for three months be two weeks' imprisonment for Her advice is also sought on *fore proceeding to Venezuela. driving without due care and methods of packing and which attention. He was ordered to clothes to choose so as to in- pay 138 for, compensation. His clude as many useful changes ilcenice was endorsed.

possible in an inelastic bag- Trafic Sub-Inspector J.bago allowance,

complainant MacKenzie,

told Mrs Morse has arranged to the court that on July 11, bo bring out for the show next waa seotud in ha car parked week: a select, collection hear Queen's Road and the clothes from leading London "Our TV broke down and I'simply had to de juction of Fu Houso, As he dries houses in a selection of

that's the only reason 1 pama over 1 started the car, defendant's burman-made Abres, which hava overtook him on the offside. The revolutionised modnen air ward- "Pelated" and "putilished" "by Peter · PLOMELY bus's meer sido front collided roben... by... their = ensy-to-pack, | behalf of South China Morning Fort Limited at: with the offside rear of the par. | euxy«to-wear quoslitlen.

Bireet, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.

Wrist Watch Snatched

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